The ancient cultures like the Romans were the first to discover and name the planet Saturn but Galileo was the first to discover the rings in 1610 using his newly invented telescope. Bostiling a elegant ring system Saturn the sixth planet away from our sun at a distance of 1.4 billion kilometers. Saturn is second largest planet in the solar system and here on Earth is visible at night with the naked eye. Saturn has an overall hazy yellow-brown appearance from earth view but with a telescope people can see layers of cloud with little red, brown, and white spots.
Saturn is a gas-giant planet and has no solid surface but has a solid core and a thick layer of liquid. Saturn is mostly made of hydrogen and an outer layer of gas making it the least
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Saturn cannot support life but some of the moons might support humans and some can provided valuable information about our planet and solar systems past. Most moons are ice chucks less than 10 km in diameter but some moons like Titan and Tethys. Titan the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the solar system is the only moon that humans know about that has an atmosphere and clouds made of most nitrogen. The diameter of Titan is 5,150 km just under by 120 km to the largest moon humans know called Ganymede. The surface of Titan is composed of mostly hydrocarbons, ice and maybe methane and ammonia ice. There were ice volcanoes discovered on the surface from Huygens. There are lake and possibly rain and wind in a form of liquid methane and lots of dunes made of sand. Titan can give us a glimpse of what our planet looked like before evolution. Tethys is the same density of water and has a diameter of 1066. The moon rotates in a circular orbit of 294,660 km away from Saturn and is primarily pure water ice. There are two primary features of Tethys one being the Ithaca Chasma and the crater Odysseus. The Ithaca Chasma was created early in the life of the moon when the water expanded creating the chasm that makes up three quarter of the surface. The Odysseus crater is one of many crater impacts on the surface and this one measure 400 km across and contains a central
Neptune was discovered through a discrepancy in Uranus’s orbit. Uranus’s orbit was not moving how astronomers predicted it would. They could not find an elliptical orbit that fit Uranus’s trajectory. They therefore assumed that there had to be another planet that’s gravitational pull was effecting Uranus. Johann Galle was the first to find Neptune in 1846, even though many before him had mathematically predicted where this new planet would be. The planet was named Neptune and two astronomers who had predicted mathematically where it would be are credited with finding it not Galle.
Jupiter’s moons may support life, and an extremophile called Spinoloricus Cinziae can survive no oxygen. It is also possible that Jupiter’s moon Io could support an extremophile that we do not know. Hyperthermophiles possibly could live on Venus. It also might be possible that life could exist in the clouds. Europa can support life. Psychrophiles could survive on Europa because they can withstand temperatures down to -15 degrees Celsius. Saturn can not support life, but its moons might. Enceladus has oceans. It is possible to sustain Thermococcus microbe. Bacteria have been found on Mars. Psychrophiles may not be able to survive on Eris because of its freezing temperatures, although it might be able to withstand it because of its atmosphere.
Mimas averages 246 miles in diameter and its shock waves from the Herschel impact may have caused the fractures that were created as a result on the opposite side of Mimas, which many scientists have researched. Mimas shape is not quite big enough to hold a round shape. Mimas is known to be the smallest known astronomical body that is thought to be rounded in shape due to the result of its self-gravitation. Mimas orbits at a range of 115,280 miles from Saturn in a time frame of 22 hours 37 minutes. Mimas’ orbit makes it the closest major moon of all moons of Saturn. Mimas is known to be tida...
Right alongside the fifth and largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, orbits a moon only about the same size as Earth’s moon. On this moon, is an icy surface that scientists are trying to uncover. Due to the presence of what they believe to be water, there is the possibility of life on this moon named Europa.
Most people say Pluto is not a planet but merely a dwarf planet. They are not wrong because Pluto does not have all of the characteristic of what makes a planet a planet. To qualify as a planet Pluto would have to orbit around the sun, be round, and clear out its orbit. It is only missing one characteristic, it cannot clear out its orbit. The definition of a dwarf planet is a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such. Dwarf planets may be too small to be planets but are too large to be placed in smaller categorizes. Pluto is very cold, much colder than Antarctica and it has way less gravity than Earth. There are more dwarf planets than Pluto. Pluto is the first
On the other hand, Pluto is larger than the other 40 known moons in the solar system. There is no scientific reason to arbitrarily distinguish between planets and asteroids based on the sizes of the moons that happen to be present in a planetary system.... ... middle of paper ... ... 78, No. 1, pp. 113-117.
Saturn has a total of seven rings, four main rings and three that are less visible. These rings are made up of thousands of smaller rings. Each ring varies in thickness ranging from one meter to one kilometer, consisting of ninety-nine percent ice and small amounts of other particles, mainly dust and other debris, some of the particles are mountainous sized boulders. These rings are most likely remnants from a large collision from a past moon. Each ring orbits Saturn at different rate with the further reaches taking longer to complete its orbit. The rings begin at approximately sixty-six thousand km’s from the center of Saturn to than thirteen million kilometers. The rings of Saturn contain gaps where very little material is found. These gaps
Core/Interior: The Earth has three layers to it's interior, the inner core, outer core, and mantle. Of these the outer core is thought to be liquid. Like most of the terrestrial planets at birth, the Earth has been molten and undergone some differentiation allowing the heavy material which is consisting mostly of an iron, nickel, and cobalt core making it's density five and a half times the density of water.
There are many similarities and differences between Saturn and Mars.We can use a difference to start with. The gravitational force on both planets is very different. To compare the forces, I will use the gravitational force on Earth as the example, since both of the factors are compared to Earth. Mars has a gravitational force that is .38 of Earth’s so If you were 100 pounds on Earth you would be 38 pounds on Mars, but on Saturn you would be 106.4 because it is 1.064… times Earth’s gravitational force, the difference lies in the numbers since the difference is very large. Another example of a difference between the two planets is the geological features. Though Saturn does have mountains, they are found in the inner core while Mars possesses
Although, NASA.gov states that “it is still unknown whether the surface of the planet is rocky, gaseous, or liquid” (Nasa.gov). About
The gas giants are a collection of planets in our solar system. As can be told from their name, they are mostly composed of differing mixtures of gases and ices. The gas and ice composition in question varies among the different planets. This mix of gases gives much of the planets an extremely thick atmosphere. At the very center of a gas giant is a core of liquid heavy metals. The gas giants are also called Jovian planets, taken from the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Due to the fact the the majority of a gas giant planet is gas, the planet isn’t very dense and therefore, very large as a result. In fact, all of the gas giants are vastly larger than all of the terrestrial planets. Another common factor of the gas giants are their large amount of moons. The terrestrial planet, Mars, has the largest amount of moons, 2. The amount of moons of Mars is dwarfed in comparison to Saturn’s and Jupiter’s moo...
The history of the planet's discovery is the first we have of its kind; Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope. The circumstances surrounding the discovery of the object are befitting of the odd planet. The earliest recorded sighting of Uranus was in 1690 by John Flamsteed, but the object was catalogued as another star. On March 13, 1781 Uranus was sighted again by amateur astronomer William Herschel and thought to be a comet or nebulous star. In 1784, Jean-Dominique Cassini, director of the Paris Observatory and prominent professional astronomer, made the following comment:
Our knowledge gained of Titan has drastically improved since the early 1980s when Voyager flew past it. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and the second largest moon of our solar system. It has a diameter estimated roughly 40% of Earth’s moon (Titan’s Radius: 2576, Moon’s Radius: 1737) and is 80% more massive (Titan’s Mass: 1.35 x 10^23 kg, Moon’s Mass: 7.35 x 10^22 kg. Titan has a atmospheric surface pressure 50% more than of Earth’s. In addition to that, Titan is the only moon to have a dense atmosphere. Titan’s atmosphere has been calculated to be 4.5 times more dense than of Earth’s atmosphere, which can been clearly noted by the layers of haze seen. The atmosphere in Titan is approximately 1.5km and is mainly composed of nitrogen. Titan has a very similar vertical atmospheric structure to earth, Titan has a troposphere temperature of ~94-~70K, a tropopause temperature of 70.4K and a stratosphere temperature of ~70-175K.
Saturn's sales are down, and market share needs to be increased. Also, the product line is too narrow. Current advertising is targeting the younger population, but the average age of a Saturn buyer is 43. Saturn's initial focus on employee relationships seems to be fading as demonstrated with the clash between GM designers in Europe and the U.S. on the L-Series car. In addition, overall styling of the vehicles needs to be addressed.
The fourth planet from the sun is Mars. “Mars is named after a mythological figure-the Roman God of War. Due to Mars color it is also known as the red planet. Mercury is the tiniest planet then Mars. Scientist have found that mars has the largest mountain compared to the other planets. Furthermore, this mountain is named Olympus Mons, it is a shield volcano, it is 21 km high and 600 km in diameter. Scientist have discovered recent lava on the planet, therefore the volcano may still be active.